First Quartile

基本解释

Where even if you can find somebody who's going to be a first quartile manager, there's almost no difference between the first quartile return and the third quartile return.
即使你能找到一位,一流的經理人,但在債券市場收益中,第一和第三個四分位數之間幾乎沒有區別
"Survival between these 2 groups differed, with 66 percent surviving 6 years in the first quartile compared with 83.8 percent in quartiles 2 through 4, " the researchers write.
研究者寫道：“兩組間的生存率不同，第一個四分位數的患者於第二至四百分位數患者的6年生存率分別爲66%、83.8%。”
McKinsey discovered that one-third of banks and two-fifths of big American industrial companies dropped out of the first quartile of their industries in the recession of 2001-02.
麥肯錫發現，在2001-2002的衰退中，1/3的銀行和2/5的美國實業型公司跌出所在領域的前25%。

Where even if you can find somebody who's going to be a first quartile manager, there's almost no difference between the first quartile return and the third quartile return.
即使你能找到一位,一流的經理人,但在債券市場收益中,第一和第三個四分位數之間幾乎沒有區別
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Small-cap stocks are tougher to price than large-cap stocks, so there's a 4.7% differential, first to third quartile.
小磐股比大磐股更難定價,第一和第三個四分位數的差距有4.7%
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Then as you move out to the equity markets where it's harder to price things as efficiently--large-cap stocks -there are two-fold percentage points,first to third quartile.
如果你轉而觀察,難以有傚定價的市場,比如大磐股,第一和第三個四分位數相差2個百分點
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The hot-growth fourth quartile showed an 8% return, slightly better than the skanky first quartile's 7.5%.
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